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Thegan Govender
Thegan Govender

Reputation: 35

How to remove paragraph spacing in output using the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word Library

In my C# Desktop app i am using the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word library to write to a word file. But whenever its done exporting there's huge spaces between paragraphs. Using the paragraph1.Range.ParagraphFormat.SpaceAfter = 0; parameter doesn't affect the result as well. My desired result is the "No Spacing" preset in Word but after some research i found out it is not an option this library. Is there any way to remove or set the spacing between paragraphs. This is my code:

 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application word = new Application();
 word.Visible = false;
 var doc = word.Documents.Add();
 var paragraph1 = doc.Content.Paragraphs.Add();

 paragraph1.Range.Font.Name = "Calibri";
 paragraph1.Range.Font.Size = 11;

 paragraph1.Range.ParagraphFormat.SpaceBefore = 0;
 paragraph1.Range.ParagraphFormat.SpaceAfter = 0;

 paragraph1.Range.Text = story;
 paragraph1.Range.InsertParagraphAfter();

 doc.SaveAs2(@"F:\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\LITPC\LITPC\bin\Debug\"+title+".docx");

 word.Quit();

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2732

Answers (2)

Yosem
Yosem

Reputation: 11

I solved this problem by changing the Word.Paragraph.SpaceAfter parameter on previous paragraph. For example.

// First Paragraph
Word.Paragraph mainTitle = document.Paragraphs.Add();
mainTitle.Range.Text = "para1";
mainTitle.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter;
mainTitle.Range.InsertParagraphAfter();
mainTitle.SpaceAfter = 0.0f;

// Second Paragraph
Word.Paragraph semiTitle = document.Paragraphs.Add();
semiTitle.Range.Text = "para2";
semiTitle.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter;
semiTitle.Range.InsertParagraphAfter();
semiTitle.SpaceAfter = 10.0f;

So, the SpaceAfter of semiTitle will be 0. Similarly, the SpaceAfter of the next paragraph after semiTitle will be 10.

Upvotes: 1

Jeremy Fox
Jeremy Fox

Reputation: 32

First of all the SpaceBefore and SpaceAfter properties take floats so you need to suffix your values with an f. Try: paragraph1.SpaceBefore = 0.0f;, that worked for me.

Also, be careful to reset the spacing when you insert a new paragraph because subsequent paragraphs will inherit the new spacing.

Or avoid Interop Word altogether if you can, it's a deep, dark, rabbit hole I've been down for several days.

Upvotes: 1

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